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You are here: Home / The Most Important Job In The Bush Administraiton

The Most Important Job In The Bush Administraiton

by Tim F|  June 28, 20079:28 am| 17 Comments

This post is in: Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin.

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Unquestionably the Inspectors General for the various federal departments. If the people responsible for oversight took their job the least bit seriously every federal department would grind to a halt, just like the DOJ when since public pressure forced them to care about the attorney firing scandal. Ergo:

Commerce Department Inspector General Johnnie E. Frazier has been formally cited for violating the federal whistle-blower protection law and is about to retire.

Today, he’ll be toasted at a going-away party — on government property and government time. The party is from 3 to 5 p.m. at the department’s Herbert C. Hoover Building headquarters.

The Times phrases its headline (“Official Cited for Violation to Be Feted”) as if there is some contradiction here. But of course that is ridiculous. If Johnnie Frazier had done his job and a corrupt Bush appointee lost his job or went to jail, then he would find his stuff in a cadboard box by the curb. In our modern GOP the most important job skill for any oversight official is looking the other way.

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  1. 1.

    ThymeZone

    June 28, 2007 at 9:33 am

    Again we are shocked — shocked! — to find out that the party that told us government was no good, can only deliver government that is no good.

    They made a campaign promise, and kept it. What’s the surprise?

  2. 2.

    Pb

    June 28, 2007 at 9:45 am

    They made a campaign promise, and kept it. What’s the surprise?

    I think that is the surprise, seeing as how they were full of crap on practically everything else…

  3. 3.

    DougJ

    June 28, 2007 at 9:46 am

    Clinton did it too. Remember Fetegate?

  4. 4.

    Pb

    June 28, 2007 at 9:50 am

    Remember Fetegate?

    He had a fete fetish? Wait, was that the one about the Lincoln bedroom…

  5. 5.

    Jake

    June 28, 2007 at 9:57 am

    “If wrongdoing is a cause for celebration, our ongoing investigation suggests the department may well revel in festivity in the near future,” said Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.)

    Nice.

  6. 6.

    Rex

    June 28, 2007 at 10:10 am

    Is the Times sure that they didn’t mean ‘fetid’ instead?

  7. 7.

    guyermo

    June 28, 2007 at 11:47 am

    what, no medal of freedom? not even a ‘heckuva job’?

  8. 8.

    srv

    June 28, 2007 at 12:14 pm

    I hear the AEI Chair for Government Ethics has an opening.

  9. 9.

    Tsulagi

    June 28, 2007 at 12:14 pm

    That new tag is getting a lot of use.

  10. 10.

    ThymeZone

    June 28, 2007 at 12:45 pm

    Justice Thomas explains that schools in which blacks are racially isolated might actually be a good thing for such students, and gets snippy with the Court’s liberals: “Regardless of what Justice Breyer’s goals might be, this Court does not sit to ‘create a society that includes all Americans’

    From a Dkos reference to the new school race decision fro SCOTUS.

    I think that this statement by Justice Thomas must rank as one of the most astounding utterances in the history of this country’s jurisprudence.

    Or am I missing something? I am occasionally moved to ask, at what point do we simply throw process aside, march on Washington, and tell all of these motherfuckers to get out?

  11. 11.

    Punchy

    June 28, 2007 at 12:58 pm

    Bush just lost his “Dirty Mexicans Must Go Home” bill to Senate….wait for it….REPUBLICANS.

    I could be wrong, but isn’t this his first major defeat? SS got buried, but long b’fore it actually went to bill form. Can’t wait to see how this retard takes his first of probably many coming defeats.

  12. 12.

    Bubblegum Tate

    June 28, 2007 at 3:12 pm

    Shorter Clarence Thomas: I got mine–fuck all you other Black kids!

  13. 13.

    Zifnab

    June 28, 2007 at 3:38 pm

    Shorter Clarence Thomas: I got mine—fuck all you other Black kids!

    I particularly like how Thomas implies that segregation is potentially beneficial to the minority class. The spirit of George Wallace was resurrected in the body of a Black Republican Supreme Court Justice.

    Is it just me, or is Clarence Thomas’s entire purpose in life to take everything Scalia says and make it sound 100% more ignorant and stupid.

  14. 14.

    les

    June 28, 2007 at 4:14 pm

    Is it just me, or is Clarence Thomas’s entire purpose in life to take everything Scalia says and make it sound 100% more ignorant and stupid.

    It may not be his entire purpose, but he’s damn good at it.

  15. 15.

    jake

    June 29, 2007 at 6:20 am

    this Court does not sit to ‘create a society that includes all Americans’

    And someone will launch an attack on your favourite civil rights ruling in 3…2…1…

    Comments like that make me wonder if Thomas has ever seen a copy of the Constitution or read a previous SC ruling. I’m still convinced some sheet-wearer thought replacing T. Marshall with this dickhead was an amusing little jest. It may well have inspired the brilliant plan to run Keyes against Obama. “See? They’re both black. People won’t be able to tell the difference. I sure can’t, hyuck, hyuck.”

    I particularly like how Thomas implies that segregation is potentially beneficial to the minority class.

    Ah, America. Where anyone, regardless of personal characteristics, can be a complete and total wanker whenever he or she so desires.*

    Progress! Or something.

    *Some restrictions apply. Ability to engage in wankosity may vary based on income, status and personal connections.

  16. 16.

    grumpy realist

    June 29, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    I had so much fun voting for Obama last election because Keyes was running against him. The only real excitement in the race was whether we could hold Keyes down into the single digits (we didn’t).

    Based on the percentage of the vote for Keyes, I can state with confidence that the percentage of Americans in Illinois who are bat-shit crazy hovers around 12%.

    (Who was it who pointed out that the percentage approving of Bush is the same percentage of Americans who think they’ve been abducted by UFOs?)

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  1. Physics Geek… Here’s Why | Cold Fury says:
    June 29, 2007 at 4:07 am

    […] It seems the Department of Commerce’ Inspector General Johnnie Frazier is in trouble for doing a couple of the things he is supposed to police up as a government watchdog, including submitting fraudulent travel vouchers, and retaliating against people who blew the whistle on him. Tim’s take? The Times phrases its headline (“Official Cited for Violation to Be Feted”) as if there is some contradiction here. But of course that is ridiculous. If Johnnie Frazier had done his job and a corrupt Bush appointee lost his job or went to jail, then he would find his stuff in a cadboard box by the curb. In our modern GOP the most important job skill for any oversight official is looking the other way. […]

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